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Greece: NO! End the negotiations
Published July 5, 2015. | By Socialist Action.
July 2015 Tsipras
By OKDE-Spartacos
— ATHENS, June 28 — The Greek government, despite its persistent
efforts, failed to win the confidence of the institutions (EU, IMF) and
the favor or the hegemonic bourgeois classes of Europe. The vows of
loyalty to the repayment of the debt “fully and timely” and the
renunciation of unilateral actions, as well as of any measure that would
be contrary to the capitalist normality, weren’t enough.
SYRIZA adopted ever more measures and reforms in full accordance with
the memoranda (privatizations, retirement age increases, de facto
reductions in wages and pensions, increasing VAT in mass consumption
products, etc.). The EU and the IMF, however, along with their domestic
partners in Greece, don’t want just harsh measures but they also want to
destroy any hope (and illusion) reflected in the election of a
government that was elected with the slogan of terminating the
memoranda, even if this slogan was withdrawn the very first day after
the elections.
Thus, the leadership of SYRIZA was at a dead end. Unable to sign its
political death sentence—that is to say, an agreement so shameful that
would lead the party to the fate of the social democratic PASOK of
George Papandreou—and under the pressure of the demands of the workers’
movement, the government launched a referendum.
We have no illusions about the intentions or the ability of SYRIZA to
conflict with the interests of capital and the capitalist institutions.
However, voting NO to the proposals of the troika, may open, under
appropriate conditions, a new round of political crisis of the system
that exploits and oppresses us.
In the following days, the traditional parties of capital, ND and PASOK,
together with the ultra-neoliberal POTAMI, which altogether react
fiercely to any taxation of corporate profits and of large incomes and
demand even lower wages, will start ranting, in any way possible, about
the alleged disaster that a rejection of the proposal of the
institutions will bring. They will blackmail bluntly, brandishing the
alleged disaster of an exit from the euro-zone.
The working class, however, has already experienced the real disaster:
austerity and capitalist aggressions. The working class cannot and
should not be terrified, because they have nothing substantial to lose
by capital controls or by a general crisis in the euro-zone. On the
contrary, when capitalism, the system that exploits us, shakes, we are
preparing for battle. What will give us a rupture with the EU and the
IMF is confidence and will for struggle, not despair and fear.
This rupture cannot be made merely by voting. Neither could the
elections have been the magic solution to get rid of austerity, nor can
the referendum [accomplish that goal]. The next few days should find us
in the streets, so as to confront the reactionary, pro-capitalist
gatherings like “We stay in Europe,” and also so as to ensure that there
is real rupture, and that the referendum will not be just a negotiating
maneuver of Tsipras and the leadership of SYRIZA.
Besides, let’s not have any illusion: if it weren’t for the mass
mobilizations, not only the recent ones but, mainly, those of all
previous years, there would be no jam with the institutions and the
memoranda would proceed normally.
Our NO to the proposals of the troika is in no way a vote of confidence
to the government of SYRIZA–ANEL. Besides, their own proposals, the text
of the 47 pages and the amendments made afterwards, are also totally
unacceptable and represent a new memorandum, maybe a little bit more
mild, but including new cuts and privatizations. Actually, in certain
issues, the proposals of the government are even more reactionary than
those of the institutions: defending armament programs, preservation of
the tax breaks for ship owners. We will say NO to these proposals as
well, with our struggles.
On Sunday, July 5 we vote NO.
NO: so as to open the rift, and not to begin a new round of negotiations
NO: in the streets and not only in the ballot
NO: to this and to every agreement
NO: overall to the euro-zone, the EU and the IMF, and not just to their
proposals
NO: to the Troika, but also to any other administrator of the same system
OKDE-Spartacos is the Greek section of the Fourth International.
Photo: Greek government leader Alexis Tsipras speaks to the media after
voting in the July 5 referendum.
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